king's-hood 
Deil uirik' his tciny's-hood in a spleuchan ! 
Burns, Death aud Dr. Hornbook. 
2. In lot., Geranium sylvaticum, the wood-ge- 
ranium. [Prov. Eng.] 
Kingsman(kmgz'mau),M.; p\.Kingsien(-viien). 
1. At the University of Cambridge, England, a 
member of King's College. 
He came out the winner, with the Kinggman and one 
of our three close at his heels. 
C. A. Brinted, English University, p. 127. 
2. [1. c.] A neckerchief. [Slang, London.] 
The man who does not wear his silk neckerchief his 
King's-man, as it is called is known to be in desperate 
circumstances. 
Mayliew, London Labour and London Poor, I. 63. 
king-snake (king'snak), . A large harmless 
serpent of the United States, Ophibolus getulus, 
and gome related species, as 0. sayi, of the 
family Colubridx, spotted with jet-black and 
white or yellowish-white. It is regarded as an 
enemy of the rattlesnake, which it attacks and 
kills by constriction. 
king's-piece (kingz'pes), n. Same as king-post. 
king's-spear (kingz'sper), n. A plant of the 
genus Asphodelus (A. luteus). See asphodel. 
Kingston s valve. See valve. 
king-table (king'ta"bl), . In medieval arch., a 
course or member, conjectured to be a string- 
course, with ball-flower ornaments iu a hollow 
molding, occurring under parapets. 
king-truss (king'trus), . A truss for a roof 
framed with a king-post. 
king-tyrant (king'tl"rant), n. The king-bird. 
king-vulture (king' vuFtur), n. A large Amer- 
ican vulture of the family Cathartidce, the Sar- 
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2. An unreasonable and obstinate notion; a 
crotchet ; a whim. [Colloq.] 
The fact is, when a woman gits a kink in her head agin 
a man, the best on us don't allers do jest the right thing. 
H. B. Stance, Oldtown, p. 33. 
kink 1 (kingk), v. i. or t. [< kink 1 , .] 1 . To form 
kinks; twist or contract into knots. 2. To be- 
come entangled : said of a line. 
kink'- 2 (kingk), v . i. [X ME. kinkcn, kynken, also 
assibilated kenchen, < AS. *cinoian (in verbal 
n. cincung, a fit of laughter) = MD. kinchen, 
D. kinkcn, cough; prob. ult. imitative, like liic, 
Hence chink*, kinkcough, chincough, kinkhaust, 
etc.] 1. To laugh loudly. 2. To gasp for 
breath as in a severe fit of coughing: especially 
applied to the noisy inspiration of breath in 
whooping-cough. [Obsolete or colloq. in both 
uses.] 
I laghe that I kynke. 
Toimeley Mysteries, p. 309. (Halliwell.) 
kink 2 (kingk), n. [< kink 2 , v.'] A convulsive fit 
of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of 
the breath; the whoop in whooping-cough; a 
gasping for breath caused by coughing, laugh- 
ing, or crying. [Scotch and southern IT. S.] 
I gae a sklent wi' my ee to Donald Roy Macpherson, and 
he was Ian into a kink o' laughing. 
Hogg, Brownie o' Bodsbeck, II. 24. 
kinkajou (kiug'ka-jo), . [S. Amer. (?).] A 
procypniform quadruped of Central and South 
America, Cercoleptes caudivolvulus, family Cer- 
coleptidw, series Arctoideaprocyoniformia of the 
order Ferce or Carnivora. It is about as large as a 
cat, with a long, tapering, prehensile tail, short limbs, low 
ears, broad rounded head, slender body, and narrow pro- 
trusile tongue ; it is of a pale yellowish-brown color and 
arboreal nocturnal habits. The animal resembles a lemur 
in some respects, but is most nearly related to the racoon. 
It feeds upon fruit, insects, and birds, and is easily tamed. 
King-vulture {Sarcorhamphus or Gyparchui papa). 
corhamphuspapa: so called because the smaller 
vultures, as turkey-buzzards and carrion-crows, 
are often driven from their repasts by this 
more powerful bird of prey. The plumage is 
white, of a creamy or pale-buff tint ; the large wing- and 
tail-feathers are black ; and the head and upper neck are 
naked or nearly so, and brilliantly varied with scarlet, 
orange, blue, black, and white. The hird is much inferior 
in size and in spirit to the condor of South America and 
to the Californian condor. It inhabits South and Central 
America and Mexico, in wooded districts ; it extreme 
range is from Paraguay to near the Mexican border of the 
United States. 
kingwood (king' wiid), u. A Brazilian wood be- 
lieved to be derived from a species of Dalber- 
gia ( Triptolemtea), but by some referred to Brya 
Ebenus. It is beautifully streaked with violet tints, and 
is used in turning and small cabinet-work. Also called 
violet-wood. 
kinic (kin'ik), a. [Also quinic; = F. kinique; 
< kina, an abbr. of quinquina, cinchona: see 
quinine.] Pertaining to or obtained from cin- 
chona: same as cinchonic. Kinic acid. C 7 Hi 2 Oa, 
a monobasic vegetable acid found in the cinchona bark, 
where it exists in combination with the alkaloids cincho- 
nine and quinine, and also with lime, forming the kinates 
of these bases, It is found also in the blaeberry (Vaccini- 
um MyrtiUtii), in coffee-beans, and in the leaves of oak, 
elm, ivy, holly, etc. 
kink 1 (kingk), n. [Also dial, kenk, and (Sc.) 
kinch, kinsch ; = D. G. kink, < Norw. Sw. kink, 
a twist or curl in a rope ; cf . Icel. kengr, a bend 
or bight, a metal crook. Cf. also Norw. kika, 
kinka, writhe, Icel. kikna, sink at the knees Tin- 
der a burden.] 1. A knot-like contraction or 
curl in a thread, cord, or rope, or iu a hair, wire, 
or chain, resulting from its being twisted or 
doubled upon itself, or from the nature of the 
material. Also kinkle. 
It is impossible by projecting the after-image of a straight 
line upon two surfaces which make a solid angle with each 
other to give the line itself a sensible /./';//,-. 
W. Jamee, Mind, XII. 632. 
Kinkajou or Potto of South America (Ctrco. 
leftts cau 
It is also called American potto, guchumbi, manaviri,honey- 
bear, yellow macaco, yellow lemur, and Mexican weasel. See 
Cercoleptidce. 
kinkcough (kingk'kof), n. [Also kindcough; < 
kink 2 + cough. Cf. chincough.'] The whooping- 
cough. [Scotch.] 
This must indeed be the kinkcough. Oh, sir ! do not 
grow so black in the face, if you can help it, my dear sir. 
J. Wileon, Noctes Ambrosianae, Feb., 1832. 
kinker (king'ker), n. [Origin obscure.] An 
icicle. [Prov. Eng.] 
kinkhab, n. See kincob. 
kinkhost, kinkhaust (kingk 'host, -hast), n. 
[< D. kinkhoest, whooping-cough; as kink 2 + 
host*, haust 1 ."] The whooping-cough. [Scotch 
or prov. Eng.] 
kin-kinat, n. [Var. of quina-quina."] Quinine. 
He that first . . . made public the virtue and right use 
of Hn-kina . . . saved more from the grave than those 
who built colleges, work-houses, and hospitals. 
Locke, Human Understanding, IV. xii. 12. 
kinkle 1 (king'kl), v. i. ; pret. and pp. kinkled; 
ppr. kinkling. [Freq. of kink 1 , v.~] To kink. 
See kink 1 , v., 1. 
kinkle 1 (king'kl), . [< kinkle, v.j or dim. of 
the orig. kink 1 , n."] Same as kink 1 , 1. 
I love, I say, to start upon a tramp, 
To shake the kinkles out o' hack an' legs. 
Lowell, Biglow Papers, 2d ser., ii. 
kinkle 2 (king'kl), n. Brassica Sinapistrum, the 
charlock. [Prov. Eng.] 
kinkled (king'kld), a. [< kinkle + -erf 2 .] Hav- 
ing kinkles or kinks Kinkled glass. Seeglass. 
kinky (king'ki), a. [< kink 1 + -y 1 .'] 1. Full of 
kinks; kinkled; woolly: applied especially to 
hair, as that of the negro, which is not cylin- 
dric, but flattened so that when pulled out 
straight and allowed to untwist itself the flat- 
tening is in different planes. The hair of the 
beard, etc., of other races is also kinky to 
some extent. 2. Crotchety; eccentric. [Col- 
loq., U. S.] 
kinless (kin'les), a. [< kin 1 + -less.] Destitute 
of kin or kindred Kinless loons, a name given by 
the Scotch to the judges sent among them by Cromwell, 
because they distributed justice solely according to the 
merits of the cases, being uninfluenced by family or party 
ties. Imp. Diet. 
kinsmanship 
kinnikinick, kinnikinic (kin"i-ki-nik'), n. 
[Also killikinick, kilikiiiic; Algonkin, lit. 'a mix- 
ture,' 'that which is mixed.'] 1. The leaves 
or bark of several plants (willow, sumac, etc.), 
smoked either with or without tobacco by the 
American Indians. 2. Specifically, the trail- 
ing ericaceous plant Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi, or 
bearberry, common northward in America, as 
well as in the Old World. 
The bearberry has, however, an association with Indian 
history, as it is the kinnikinnick of the Western races, who 
smoke it, and believe the practice secures them from ma- 
larial fevers. 
Thomas JHeehan, Native Flowers and Ferns, I. 78. 
3. The silky cornel, Cornus sericca, whose bark 
was used in the manner mentioned in def . 1 ; 
doubtless, also, the closely related Cornus sto- 
lonifera, or red-osier dogwood. In this sense 
best known in America. 
kino 1 (ke'uo), n. [= F. kino; appar. of E. Ind. 
origin.] A well-known drug resembling cate- 
chu, consisting of the gum of several trees be- 
longing to the tropics. It is a more or less brittle 
substance, in general of a dark reddish-brown color in the 
mass. Its chief component is tannic acid, and it thus be- 
comes a powerful astringent. Its leading use is medicinal, 
but it is also employed in India in dyeing cotton, giving 
the color called nankeen. The kinds may be classified ac- 
cording to their source, (a) East Indian, Malabar, or Am- 
boyna kino is the product of the.leguminous tree Ptero- 
carpus Marsupium of India and Ceylon. It is the kind most 
extensively used, and the only kino of the British Pharma- 
copoeia, (b) The Bengal, butea, dhak, or palas (pulas) kino 
is yielded by Butea frondosa, to some extent also by B. su- 
perba and Spatholobus Roxtnirghii. (c) Botany Bay, Austra 
Han, or eucalyptus kino is derived from Eucalyptwi resini- 
fera and several other species, the best variety probably 
from E. corymbosa. It is used in England, under the name 
of red-gum, in astringent lozenges for sore throat. See iron- 
bark-tree, (d) African kino was the first brought into notice, 
but has long been out of the market. It was produced by 
Pterocarpus erinaceus. (e) West Indian or Jamaica kino 
is the product of the tree Coccoloba uvtfera, the seaside 
grape. It has sometimes been exported, but appears to 
have no fixed standing in the market. (/)South American 
or Caraccas kino is thought to be from the same tree as 
the West Indian. It has come into considerable use in 
the United States. 
kino 2 , n. Another spelling of Tceno. 
kinofluous (ki-nof '16-us), a. [< kino 1 + L. flu- 
f re, flow.] Exuding kino. 
kinology (ki-nol'o-ji), n. [Irreg. < Gr. laveiv, 
move, + -Aoyia, <C Myeiv, speak: see -ology.'] 
That branch of physics which deals with the 
laws of motion. [Rare.] 
kinone (kin'on), n. [< kin(ic\ + -one.'] See 
qiiinone. 
kinredt, kinredet, Middle English forms of 
kindred. 
kinrict, w. Same as kingric. 
kinsfolk (kinz'fok), . pi. [< kin's, poss. of 
kin 1 , + folk.'] Belatives; kindred; persons of 
the same family. 
"Well," resumed Mr. Rochester, "if you disown pa- 
rents, you must have some sort of kinsfolk uncles and 
aunts?" Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, xiii. 
kinsh (kinsh), n. [Origin obscure.] A crowbar 
used in quarrying. [Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] 
kinship (kin'ship), . [< kin 1 + -ship."] Re- 
lationship; consanguinity; generic affinity. 
Leolin . . 
Would often, in his walks with Edith, claim 
A distant kinship to the gracious blood 
That shook the heart of Edith hearing him. 
Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. 
The most recent researches into the primitive history 
of society point to the conclusion that the earliest tie 
which knitted men together in communities was Consan- 
guinity or Kinship. 
Maine, Early Hist, of Institutions, p. 64. 
kinsingt (kin'sing), n. [Origin obscure.] Some 
operation performed for the cure of a mad dog. 
Nares. 
The dogge was best cured by cutting and kinging. 
Hall, Epig. against Marston. 
kinsman (kinz'man), .; pi. kinsmen (-men). [< 
ME. kynnesman;'<. kin's, poss. of kin 1 , + man."] 
A man of the same race or family; one related 
by blood, or, more loosely, by marriage. The 
word is commonly and properly "used only of a relative by 
blood, in contradistinction to relatives by marriage, who 
are properly termed affines. 
He called Sortebran, and Clarion, and Gaidon, and Sene- 
bant,andMalore,and Ffreelant; alle these were his kynnes- 
men, and bolde kuyghtes and hardy. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), it 2-20. 
Sweet recreation barr'd, what doth ensue 
But moody and dull melancholy, 
Kinsman to grim and comfortless despair? 
Shak., C. of E., v. 1, 80. 
kinsmanship (kinz'man-ship), . [< kinsman 
+ -ship."] Same as kinship. [Rare.] 
They [Persians and Hindus and their European and 
American congeners) learn the meaning involved in this 
providential rediscovery of their original kinsmanship. 
F. W. Farrar, Families of Speech (1S70), p. 54. 
